- The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingeskibsmuseet) is the Danish national museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding in the prehistoric and medieval period.
- Although the Viking Ship Museum is not in the heart of Oslo, it’s relatively easy to get to. We took the bus to the museum and it was only a few stops out of the way.
- In the museum harbour outside the museum it is possible to see the full size reconstruction Ottar build by the Viking Ship Museum.
- The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset) houses 3 Viking long boats, which were used as burial vessels. These were excavated on the shores of the...
- This was our first real day in Norway and we had two things on our agenda. Go to the Viking Ship Museum and explore the Oslo Folk Museum.
- The museum is made up of two main sections – the Viking Ship Hall, where the vessels are kept; and the Boatyard, where archaeological work takes place.
- Our next stop is the Viking Ship Museum containing five completely reconstructed Viking longboats, built from salvaged wrecks from the Fjord itself over the last...
- - Also in Roskilde you will be brought all the way to the cost of Roskilde fjord (bay of Roskilde). This is where the vikings ship museum is located.
- The Viking Ship Museum exhibits three boats from a time when Norway’s Vikings were pillaging and plundering their way across Europe.
- In 1913 Professor Gabriel Gustafson, who had led the excavation of the Oseberg Ship, proposed the building of a Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy.